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Subject: [MCCRACKEN] Re: McCrackens from County Down
Date: 12 Oct 2003 11:16:37 -0600

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There were many McCrackens in the Benraw/Slievenaboley area of County Down (near Banbridge) in the 1800's. David McCracken, my ggggrandfather, was born about 1784 and he died in Benraw in 1868 and is buried there in the graveyard of the Leitrim (Benraw) Presbyterian Church. The minister of that church is also the minister of the Banbridge church and he lives in Banbridge. This David was the Benraw schoolmater for more than 60 years, and he is still remembered in that area. I don't know his wife's name, but a few of his children were David, John, Eleanor, and Margaret.John was my gggrandfather. He married Agnes Hutchinson and they had 12 children, named Samuel, David, Eleanor Ann, Mary Jane, John Ferguson, Robert, Joseph, William H., Thomas, Waring Curran, Hugh and Agnes. This family moved to Newcastle around 1850 where John became a grocer. In time, some of the children moved on including to the USA and Canada. Families tend to use the same names over and over again,please l!
et me know if any sound familiar.

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